3,000 Saudis Want Women To Be Allowed To Drive

Three thousand Saudis have signed a petition asking a conservative Muslim council to consider allowing women to legally drive. The council is said to be consideribg a debate on this wild and crazy idea. Women in cars! Who’d have thunk?! [Raw Story]

Also, why does Steubenville football coach Reno Saccoccia still have his job? [Salon]

Henry Rollins, of all people, has written a kinda awesome piece about Steubenville. [Henry Rollins]

A church in North Carolina vowed to stop performing all weddings until gay marriage is legal. [Salon]

The Senate is set to explore a claim that visas for skilled workers, such as in the tech field, are discriminating against women. [New York Times]

Well, this is terrible: two studies have shown that 40 percent of police officer families experience domestic violence compared with 10 percent of regular families — in part because the officer owns a gun and knows how to manipulate the system. [Jezebel]

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